ORLANDO—Contrary to popular belief, it is possible that Tiger Woods will not win the Arnold Palmer Invitational on Sunday. All Rickie Fowler or Justin Rose need is to find the secret recipe.

It’s to the spaghetti dish Woods’ wife used to make. The pasta almost killed Tiger before the final round 10 years ago. But food poisoning at least made it seem possible he might actually lose at Bay Hill.

He somehow survived and conquered, though nobody should have been surprised. Woods has a way of getting well when he visits Arnold Palmer’s house.

And here he is again, with a two-shot lead heading into Sunday. A win would restore Woods to No. 1 in the world. It would put another punctuation mark on his comeback. It would tie him to Sam Snead as the only player to win an event eight times.

So Tiger has momentum, incentive and history going for him. The best thing the field has is willful ignorance.

Good luck with that. Woods and Bay Hill have a love affair going back to when he won the U.S. Junior Amateur. That was 22 years, 76 Tour wins and hundreds of millions of dollars ago.

Forty of those wins have come on seven courses. Torrey Pines, Doral and Firestone are like easy chairs for Woods. He saunters in, plops down and props his feet up on the entire field.

Bay Hill is his cushiest La-Z-Boy. Neither rain nor snow nor heat nor gloom of night nor bad spaghetti can keep him from his appointed round with the winner’s trophy.

“I have played under some interesting conditions here,” he said.

This year’s tournament has had them all. Wood shot a 69 in Thursday’s unseasonable chill. Friday was a wind-blown 70. Saturday was hot, then cloudy, then sunny, then rainy, then sunny, then blustery.

Other than his hand slipping on one drive, nothing bothered Woods. Rose had a six-shot lead on him after five holes, but he wobbled in the wind.

Woods caught him with an eagle on No. 16, then it was just a question of who would be paired with Tiger on Sunday. Fowler was the first in the clubhouse at 9-under, so he gets the honor.

“I’m feeling good about my game right now,” he said.

The problem is Woods feels pretty good about his game, too. Much better than last year, when he hadn’t won in 30 months and had limped off the course at Doral two weeks earlier.

He got to Bay Hill and started putting all the disasters of the previous two years behind him. Though win No. 7 was no harder than win No. 4.

Woods had a five-shot lead going into the final round in 2003. His then-girlfriend Elin Nordegren cooked up something that had Woods hugging the toilet all night.

Woods said he wouldn’t have played if he hadn’t been in contention. He showed up, hit a few practice balls and went on his death march.

Just to add to the misery, it was raining. Woods spent much of the day bent over or looking for the nearest port-a-potty. Playing partner Brad Faxon heard him in one by the 12th hole and gave Tiger some anti-diarrhea medicine.

Tiger shot a 68 and won by 11 shots. It wasn’t quite like winning the U.S. Open on a broken leg, but it was undoubtedly one of the most challenging 18 holes of Woods’ career.

A lot has changed in the past 10 years, but Bay Hill has pretty much remained the same. If that weren’t ominous enough for the field, there is Woods’ record when he holds or is tied for the lead heading into a final round: 51-4.